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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the first ten years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2009
Spain is a transit and destination
country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of
commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. There has been an increase in the number
of minors trafficked into Spain for forced begging. In smaller numbers,
Chinese victims are trafficked to Spain, primarily for forced labor. A
coalition of 20 NGOs in Spain estimates that there are at least 50,000 people
in Spain who are victims of human trafficking. Particularly vulnerable to
trafficking are migrants from Romania and Bulgaria and possibly unaccompanied
migrant minors, though there is limited data available on the latter group. -
U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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Price of a Slave in Brazil AN ANIMAL IN A ZOO - Before leaving Brazil, I
suspected prostitution but I never imagined that I would be a prisoner,
threatened day and night. At the house, we were slaves. I never got anything,
not money, not clothes. I didn't have my documents so I couldn't leave. We were
given very little food, and we had to stay up until 5 am every day, trying to
get customers. We couldn't even leave the house
without being accompanied by "security." One of the girls was
threatened with death after she left for a weekend. They thought she went
looking for the Brazilian consulate. We never had routine medical exams, much
less tests for AIDS. I fled when I met a Brazilian
customer to whom I told my story. It seems that he had contact with other
groups because nine days after I told him my story he returned, gave me a
false passport and a ticket back to Brazil.
I escaped, but even today I think of my friends there who are being
held prisoners, like animals in a zoo. ***
ARCHIVES *** Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Methods
used by traffickers to maintain control of their victims included physical
abuse, forced use of drugs, withholding of travel documents, and threats to
the victim's family. Women from Traffickers lured some victims
from other regions with false promises of employment in service industries
and agriculture but then forced them into prostitution upon their arrival in
the country. The media reported that criminal networks often lured their
victims by using travel agencies and newspaper advertisements in their home
countries that promised guaranteed employment in Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) - 2002 [8] In line with its previous
recommendation (ibid., para.20), the Committee welcomes the improvement of
safeguards in the cases of inter-country adoption contained in Act 1/1996 and
the ratification of the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and
Cooperation in respect of Inter-country Adoption. Spain
Links Voodoo to Forced-Prostitution Case www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/world/europe/23spain.html?_r=1&ref=world
The traffickers lured their
victims with promises of a better life in Europe and took them to a voodoo
priest before departure, the police said in a statement. The traffickers then
smuggled them to Spain, where they told the victims they had to become
prostitutes to repay a hefty debt for their journey or face the wrath of
voodoo spirits. Women were taken to a voodoo
shrine and made to swear before a priest that they would never reveal the
identities of the traffickers, he said. The priests took pieces of
fingernails or hair from the women as part of the ritual. “People here are very scared of the power
of voodoo, so the traffickers tell the victims that if they do anything funny
they will invoke voodoo,” Mr. Mojeed said in a
telephone interview. RIGHTS:
Activists Demand that Spain Sign Convention Against Human Trafficking Gentiana Susaj,
coordinator of the RED, said it is important for Spain to sign and ratify the
Convention because it is one of the foremost European destination and transit
countries for human trafficking. The victims are mainly women aged between 18
and 25 from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia and
Nigeria. These women are recruited in
their countries of origin and taken abroad by mafias who deceive or coerce
them. They are usually promised jobs in Spain, and when they arrive, most
find themselves locked up in brothels. Police
arrest 60 people in crackdown on human trafficking ring Authorities raided five brothels
and nine homes in the province of Almeria,
arresting 13 people suspected of leading the ring. Investigators believe the women
were brought to Spain with fake documentation and kept under strict lockdown
in the nightclubs where they were forced to work. Spanish police arrest 7 for human-trafficking www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/April/theworld_April178.xml§ion=theworld&col= At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The arrests took place in the
northeastern Mediterranean coastal region of Costa Brava, where the gang
allegedly smuggled in women, mostly from Spanish, Bulgarian police dismantle alleged human
trafficking ring www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/17/europe/EU_GEN_Bulgaria_Human_Trafficking.php At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The ring — allegedly led by 35-year-old
Bulgarian, who was not identified by name — is suspected of organizing the
smuggling of more than 500 women from eastern European countries into Spanish
general prosecutor: Human trafficking, main Romanian problem in Spain www.daily-news.ro/article_detail.php?idarticle=30691 www.organisedcrime.info/index.php?level1=10&level2=&mode=2&id=275 HUMAN TRAFFICKING MAIN ROMANIAN
PROBLEM IN Spanish
police have broken up a gang of Romanian human traffickers Spanish police have broken up a
gang of Romanian human traffickers who were faking identity documents and
credit cards. Twenty-two people have been arrested, the majority of them
Romanians. The gang specialized in
bringing Romanian women, often under-age girls, to Spanish police rescue hostage boy flametree.blog-city.com/spanish_police_rescue_hostage_boy.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Spanish
Police Arrest 14 in Crackdown on Immigrant Prostitution Ring The group recruited hundreds of
women coming mainly from FG
Smashes Human Trafficking Syndicate allafrica.com/stories/printable/200501250914.html According to Babandede,
the parcel contained shocking pornographic photographs of Nigerian girls
based in Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study The
Price of a Slave in Brazil AN ANIMAL IN A ZOO - Before leaving Brazil, I suspected
prostitution but I never imagined that I would be a prisoner, threatened day
and night. At the house, we were slaves. I never got anything, not money, not
clothes. I didn't have my documents so I couldn't leave. We were given very
little food, and we had to stay up until 5 am every day, trying to get
customers. We couldn't even leave the house
without being accompanied by "security." One of the girls was
threatened with death after she left for a weekend. They thought she went
looking for the Brazilian consulate. We never had routine medical exams, much
less tests for AIDS. I fled when I met a Brazilian
customer to whom I told my story. It seems that he had contact with other
groups because nine days after I told him my story he returned, gave me a
false passport and a ticket back to Brazil.
I escaped, but even today I think of my friends there who are being
held prisoners, like animals in a zoo. ECPAT Spain launches a new campaign against the Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) www.ecpat.net/eng/ECPAT_news/ecpat_spain.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The campaign’s main goal is the
prevention of CSEC by raising the awareness of people travelling
from COUNTER-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS - In 2001, tensions between Spain
and Morocco increased as government officials on each side blamed the other
country for smuggling and trafficking problems in the region. Spain accused
Morocco of not doing enough to limit the illegal activities, while Morocco
claimed that Spanish mafia gangs were responsible for the increase in the
number of illegal immigrants who tried to enter Spain by boat from Morocco.
These days Spain has set up a network of sensors and cameras along the coast
to intercept illegal migrants. All material used herein
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